Mark Vernon
@askwilliamblake.bsky.social
Writer, psychotherapist, lover of William Blake - Plato, Dante and Owen Barfield, too. For more see www.markvernon.com
The Chapter House is not a lovely ruin at Saxon Bampfylde but a lively part of the business's life. As is the story of #Narnia
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November 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The Chapter House is not a lovely ruin at Saxon Bampfylde but a lively part of the business's life. As is the story of #Narnia
See
fetzer.org/case-study/b...
Image: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
See
fetzer.org/case-study/b...
Image: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
The dispute enjoyed by #CSLewis and #OwenBarfield, which they called their Great War, as explained by Barfield’s grandson. Issue #1 imagination.
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The dispute enjoyed by #CSLewis and #OwenBarfield, which they called their Great War, as explained by Barfield’s grandson. Issue #1 imagination.
New issue of @idler magazine released today. My thoughts this month are on bullshitters, whom #Dante placed in a very low circle of hell.
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
New issue of @idler magazine released today. My thoughts this month are on bullshitters, whom #Dante placed in a very low circle of hell.
Talking #WilliamBlake tomorrow if you’re near Providence RI! Entry free but book discount here as well - www.eventbrite.com/e/author-eve...
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Talking #WilliamBlake tomorrow if you’re near Providence RI! Entry free but book discount here as well - www.eventbrite.com/e/author-eve...
Do come along if you’re in town! www.wayfaremagazine.org/p/the-power-...
November 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Do come along if you’re in town! www.wayfaremagazine.org/p/the-power-...
Essential life hack, imho.
November 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Essential life hack, imho.
Big thanks Virginia Theological Seminar rare books library for showing me this gorgeous 15th century Flemish book of hours. The glint of the goldleaf and brilliance of the colours is like a wormhole in time, as Catherine Clarke, our guest Idler drinks, pointed out in the discussion that followed.
October 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Big thanks Virginia Theological Seminar rare books library for showing me this gorgeous 15th century Flemish book of hours. The glint of the goldleaf and brilliance of the colours is like a wormhole in time, as Catherine Clarke, our guest Idler drinks, pointed out in the discussion that followed.
October 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The symposium on #OwenBarfield is a week Sunday, 9th Nov, at Rudolf Steiner House, London. Book tickets at Temenos Academy website.
October 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The symposium on #OwenBarfield is a week Sunday, 9th Nov, at Rudolf Steiner House, London. Book tickets at Temenos Academy website.
Hugely looking forward to this #OwenBarfield event. If you're remotely interested in his genius, and why #CSLewis and #Tolkien were in awe, do come along!
October 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Hugely looking forward to this #OwenBarfield event. If you're remotely interested in his genius, and why #CSLewis and #Tolkien were in awe, do come along!
“The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.” #WilliamBlake
October 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.” #WilliamBlake
Or as #WilliamBlake might say: “Awake! Awake O Sleeper of the Land of Shadows!”
October 12, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Or as #WilliamBlake might say: “Awake! Awake O Sleeper of the Land of Shadows!”
O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath my shady roof, there thou may’st rest,
And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe;
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
- William Blake
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath my shady roof, there thou may’st rest,
And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe;
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
- William Blake
October 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath my shady roof, there thou may’st rest,
And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe;
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
- William Blake
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath my shady roof, there thou may’st rest,
And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe;
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
- William Blake
Supermoonrise, London
October 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Supermoonrise, London
The genius of #Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Charles Williams saw, is its heart in good living, not strife, but with “the existence of a great world outside the Shire”, lest good living “grow stale by custom”; the spiritual drama, told by English mystics from #Julian to #Blake, revealing who we are.
October 6, 2025 at 7:28 AM
The genius of #Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Charles Williams saw, is its heart in good living, not strife, but with “the existence of a great world outside the Shire”, lest good living “grow stale by custom”; the spiritual drama, told by English mystics from #Julian to #Blake, revealing who we are.
The terror of meeting #SaintFrancis. More at my YouTube, “The man who ripped reality and rose like a sun”, youtu.be/bScob-fI7-Q
October 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The terror of meeting #SaintFrancis. More at my YouTube, “The man who ripped reality and rose like a sun”, youtu.be/bScob-fI7-Q
Tree ferns are yantras in Vedic understanding, drawing down spiritual energy and light. This cultivar appeared physically to have manifested the subtler insight.
October 3, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Tree ferns are yantras in Vedic understanding, drawing down spiritual energy and light. This cultivar appeared physically to have manifested the subtler insight.
“Once when I was living in the heart of a pomegranate, I heard a seed saying, 'Someday I shall become a tree…’” Kahlil Gibran
October 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM
“Once when I was living in the heart of a pomegranate, I heard a seed saying, 'Someday I shall become a tree…’” Kahlil Gibran
The pivotal idea in #WilliamBlake? Hmm. That there is Eternity - not as everlastingness, or as a quality, but as the nature of existence and identical with God. His work is absorbed with the perception of Eternity, its perversion by human beings, and its restoration to awareness.
September 30, 2025 at 6:32 AM
The pivotal idea in #WilliamBlake? Hmm. That there is Eternity - not as everlastingness, or as a quality, but as the nature of existence and identical with God. His work is absorbed with the perception of Eternity, its perversion by human beings, and its restoration to awareness.
Energy is the only Life! #OwenBarfield spots something remarkable in #WilliamBlake. The full conversation with Mark Vernon and Malcolm Guite is "Rouze Up Souls of the New Age!", at Mark's YouTube channel.
September 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Energy is the only Life! #OwenBarfield spots something remarkable in #WilliamBlake. The full conversation with Mark Vernon and Malcolm Guite is "Rouze Up Souls of the New Age!", at Mark's YouTube channel.
Three top #angel images by #WilliamBlake for the eve of the feast of #Michael and All Angels.
1. Michael Binding Satan.
2. Albion’s Angel distressed at the spiritual death of England, humanity cowering alongside.
3. Angels in Christ’s Sepulchre, awaiting the return of life.
1. Michael Binding Satan.
2. Albion’s Angel distressed at the spiritual death of England, humanity cowering alongside.
3. Angels in Christ’s Sepulchre, awaiting the return of life.
September 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Three top #angel images by #WilliamBlake for the eve of the feast of #Michael and All Angels.
1. Michael Binding Satan.
2. Albion’s Angel distressed at the spiritual death of England, humanity cowering alongside.
3. Angels in Christ’s Sepulchre, awaiting the return of life.
1. Michael Binding Satan.
2. Albion’s Angel distressed at the spiritual death of England, humanity cowering alongside.
3. Angels in Christ’s Sepulchre, awaiting the return of life.
Near NW3? In NW3! Do come along tonight - @waterstones.bsky.social Hampstead with @RupertSheldrake #WilliamBlake
September 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Near NW3? In NW3! Do come along tonight - @waterstones.bsky.social Hampstead with @RupertSheldrake #WilliamBlake
William Blake on President Trump and division...
September 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
William Blake on President Trump and division...
“The grave is burst, the spices shed, the linen wrapped up;
Let the slave grinding at the mill, run out into the field:
Let him look up into the heavens & laugh in the bright air.”
Lines from #WilliamBlake’s poetic paraphrase of the American Declaration of Independence.
Let the slave grinding at the mill, run out into the field:
Let him look up into the heavens & laugh in the bright air.”
Lines from #WilliamBlake’s poetic paraphrase of the American Declaration of Independence.
September 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
“The grave is burst, the spices shed, the linen wrapped up;
Let the slave grinding at the mill, run out into the field:
Let him look up into the heavens & laugh in the bright air.”
Lines from #WilliamBlake’s poetic paraphrase of the American Declaration of Independence.
Let the slave grinding at the mill, run out into the field:
Let him look up into the heavens & laugh in the bright air.”
Lines from #WilliamBlake’s poetic paraphrase of the American Declaration of Independence.